Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond (20 September 1768-5 May 1842) was a British peeress who was best known for the ball that she held on 15 June 1815, three days before the Battle of Waterloo.

Biography
Charlotte Lennox was born in Gight, Moray, Scotland in 1768 to the Duke of Gordon, and, in 1789, she married Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond. In 1814, the family moved to Brussels, where she gave a ball at which the Duke of Wellington received confirmation that Napoleon Bonaparte's army had invaded Belgium near Charleroi. The Duchess and her family lived in Brussels until 1818, and her husband died a year later. She died in London in 1842 at the age of 73.